Just wanted to post some progress I have made getting 1.4 stuffs onto my netra X1.

It was a long painful journey, but I did manage to get a base system on it via the debian netinst.iso for woody (3.0). It involved many cdroms being burnt (mostly due to the fact that I screwed up and/or my cdrom I attached to this machine sucks at reading burned cd's)

The problem I am now stopped at is the onboard ethernet. I read in several places that the build on davicom NIC's now work with tulip drivers in recent kernels. Using a vanialla 2.4.19 kernel I managed to get the machine booting from serial console, but am unable ot use onboard eth as of yet. It was suggested I try latest 2.4.20-pre5 patched kernel, so I am doing so right now.

seeing very strange IRQ settings for onboard nic's presently which leads me to believe the 2.4.19 is not too sparc64 happy...

The previous kernel's didn't seem to either have this problem or detect it. Also the dmfe driver doesn't seem tobe able to set the MAC address of the cards, this was true with both 2.4.19 and 2.4.20-pre5:

modprobe tulip options 0
(which forces it to single duplex 10Bt mode) seems to allow me to get some things going. It's been up hill but worth it now that I can finally emerge rsync and get to things here

I will investigate further with the tulip module to see how things pan out for better ethernet support.

After jerking around with the old gentoo 1.1a boot image (which works nicely for sparc32 installs) i finally ended up using the same netinst image you mentioned. I located the tulip module somewhere debian-related, and after using insmod tulip.o full_duplex=1 it networked like a charm. Now I'm bootstrapping the sparc64-2.0 profile, and it seems to be going very well...

I'll post again when there's progress.

If anyone requires it, I'll post a more detailed description of what I did._________________--
Jan Fredrik Leversund
Dark Overlord for Hire

I have the same problem, however i cant seem to find anyway to work around it.

iam booting the 2004.3 directly from cdrom, after trying about 400 cdrom drives i finally found one that works correctly with the netra x1.

anyways, now to thise wired network problems. iam tryin to modprobe tulip options 0 to force 10Mbit. however, the live cd loads the tulip driver automaticly, so, i dosent seem to happen anything then i try loading it again.

so, how do i "unload" tulip, so i can load it in again with the right parameters?

Regards

PS. This is kinda a sweet machine, ive just found it laying around at work, for like 3 years.